"It's documented in The Book, somewhere..."

"To let the reader complete the symmetry between words and do no more than suggest it."

"Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written."

"Persecution, then, gives rise to a peculiar technique of writing, and therewith to a peculiar type of liter…"

"I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mi…"

"Well, Jim, I haven't read any of your books but I'll have to someday because they must be good considering …"

"It doesn’t take much refection—and indeed only a little research—to discover that the kind of conservative …"